Author: Pearl Bailey

Quotes

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

- Pearl Bailey

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

- Pearl Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Pearl Bailey

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

- Pearl Bailey

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

- Pearl Bailey

You must change in order to survive.

You must change in order to survive.

- Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

- Pearl Bailey

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

- Pearl Bailey

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